Thank you to those who contributed your feedback and help in redesigning GrowSurf to make it the referral platform that works for you.

Whether you're running an e-commerce store or a SaaS startup, GrowSurf 2.0 is a fully-fledged referral marketing machine that unlocks the potential lurking in your business and puts growth on autopilot.

Automated email marketing

Emails are the backbone of a referral campaign, and that's why they are now directly integrated into GrowSurf. Select and customize the emails you want to send to your participants, including welcome emails, reminders, reward alerts to winners, and more.

Full customization of the GrowSurf window

Need custom content displayed or images inserted? Not an issue. Use our WYSIWYG editor to fully customize the contents within the GrowSurf window.

Need a different language? No problem. You can fully edit all the text displayed in the GrowSurf window to the language of your liking.

Use your site's existing forms

With GrowSurf 1.0, you needed your website visitors to enter their email using a GrowSurf form. Not anymore! If you already have a signup/subscribe form on your site, GrowSurf will automatically detect it and add form submissions as new participants in your referral campaign.

Works on multiple URLs

Let's say you want your a participant's referral link to be your website (https://mybusiness.com), but new visitors to your website sign up (or purchase your products) at a different URL (https://app.mybusiness.com/signup). With GrowSurf 2.0, you can choose the main URL you want to use for referral links, and we will automatically detect and provide referral credit regardless of the URL.

A new campaign editor

We've gone back to the drawing board with our campaign editor. Setting up a GrowSurf campaign is easier than ever. We'll take you step-by-step in the simple process of creating a successful referral campaign.

We've included examples from top referral programs, as well as tips so that you can maximize your chances for success.

Use webhooks to automatically issue rewards and/or sync data

Webhooks let you perform an action when a certain referral event occurs (e.g, send money to a participant via PayPal when they reach a reward goal, create a new Mailchimp contact when a participant is added to your campaign).

Webhooks are now completely free to use!

Webhooks are now completely free to use and let you automate reward fulfillment

Analytics

Find out, at a glance, how your campaign is performing with our new Analytics feature. View campaign performance, conversion rates, and social channel performance. We'll give you takeaways on key insights as well.

Improved dashboard

Participants now have an activity section, where you can see their history (e.g, how/when they signed up, who they referred, what social platforms they shared on, etc).

Customize the referral credit window

When someone visits your website through a referral link, GrowSurf will remember the referrer for a certain window of time in order to credit them with the referral. You can adjust this expiration window.

Notifications

Choose to be notified via email when important events happen in your campaign
(e.g, when a participant reaches a reward goal, when a new participant is added to the campaign, when the campaign ends).

REST API

For developers who want to run more advanced referral programs, you can use our REST API.

Bug fixes and new technical architecture

GrowSurf 2.0 is rebuilt from the ground up, and designed to be more reliable, accurate, and stable than the previous version. Here is a list of notable resolutions and improvements:

A complete overhaul in the GrowSurfJS client architecture introduces promises and asynchronous requests

GrowSurf no longer processes requests synchronously. This means we can handle an increased amount of requests at the same time much quicker.

Server downtime was bad in the last couple of months for 1.0, as the architecture could not handle scale properly. GrowSurf 2.0 is rebuilt with scaling in mind and has a different technical structure to avoid the many technical pitfalls that 1.0 experienced.